While this may seem like a ridiculous statement to most of you out there (and to me as well), my father, an otherwise intelligent and rational person with an illogical hatred of video games, has recently been condemning games on the grounds that they may contain spyware. His theory seems to be that some "data mining corporations" could be paying developers (especially indie developers with a low budget) large sums of money under the table to hide spyware into their games, so that said mysterious corporations could extract your personal information and use it how they pleased. I already explained to him that no self-respecting developer or publisher would do that to their customers (well, excepting maybe EA, but they're corrupt enough as it is) but he remains unconvinced. I thought perhaps if I had some back up from you guys I could change his mind. Do you think developers would do this? I'd like to hear everyone's opinion.
